Back to blog
Product6 min read

What’s new: templates, cloning, sharing, and a real File Manager

Hans Ade

V4 gave PiPilot a full cloud build environment you can carry in your pocket. Since then we’ve been filling in the everyday surfaces around it — the things that make building feel effortless from the first prompt to the shared link. Here’s a roundup of what shipped.

Start faster

You no longer begin from a blank page. The new template gallery has 6+ polished starters for every web framework — React, Vue, Svelte, Vite, Next.js, Nuxt, Angular, and fullstack — plus blank scaffolds, in light and dark and fully responsive. Pick one from the in-app picker or the public /templates page. And if you’ve built something worth sharing, publish it as a community template — complete with an AI-written description drafted from your own project docs.

Bring the real world into a build

Point the agent at any public website with Clone any UI and it studies the live page — design tokens, components, fonts, assets, and a responsive pass — then rebuilds that design in your project. Want to use your own material instead? Attach images and documents right in chat for the agent to see, and the new save_asset tool imports an uploaded logo or file straight into your project as a real asset the app uses. Generated images got sharper too: no more garbled text baked into logos and OG images.

Smarter data and docs

Two upgrades make builds more capable under the hood. PiPilot DB gives every app a real, production-grade Postgres database that the agent auto-provisions with zero setup — no keys, no dashboard — and you can claim into your own account to keep forever. And DeepWiki is now built in: an always-on tool that lets the agent read the docs and structure of any public GitHub repo and ask questions about it, so it builds against how a library actually works instead of guessing.

Manage, share, and ship

  • File Manager — a real, Google-Drive-backed file browser: folders, drag-and-drop upload, multi-select ZIP download, search, sort, and a grid with image thumbnails and preview.
  • Sharing — send a whole project to another PiPilot user by email; they claim their own copy in one click.
  • Profile & referrals — a new Profile view for your name, plan, usage, connected accounts, and referral stats; invite friends and earn bonus build hours when they subscribe.
  • One-click GitHub — connecting GitHub now opens a pre-filled token page with exactly the right scopes and no expiration.
  • Instant web hosting — publish a static site to a free *.pipilot.dev address in one click.

Open PiPilot, start from a template or clone a design you love, and ship it to a *.pipilot.dev link — all in one sitting.